Los Angeles, CA – April 21, 2010 – Anime Jungle is pleased to announce American J-Pop
recording artist - Stephanie Yanez, will be performing an online concert at Anime Jungle on April
23rd, 2010 at 9:30pm paciﬁc. Anime Jungle, Los Angeles-based shop specializing in ofﬁcial
Japanese DVDs, CDs and toys for anime/Japanese pop culture, organizes a variety of Japanese pop
culture events throughout the year. This will be the ﬁrst live webcast concert broadcasting from their
Little Tokyo location.

Ms. Yanez recently produced a online concert called Stephanie Yanez Pajama Jam Online Concert
with cartoonmogul.com. The unpublicized concert successfully webcast to over 700 viewers in
March. This will be the ﬁrst public concert that will premiere her latest single “Sakura Wonderland,”
which is featured on the popular anime-related social network site TinierMe.com. The new single
was produced by PoLo of the Japanese rock band NIRF, who will be performing with Ms. Yanez
during the concert.

In addition to the concert, a live Q&A session will take place after the performance along with the
world wide premiere of the “Sakura Wonderland” music video. The music video and online concert is
produced by cartoonmogul.com in association with whitelabelmedia.net.

About Stephanie Yanez
Discovering music at the age of 5, Stephanie Yanez was born to sing. Her love for music eventually
led her to record four songs at PARAMOUNT STUDIOS on Geneon's Anime Karaoke Collection with
three of those songs recorded with overseas Japan-based record label I'VE, known for their singer
Kotoko. Since winning the crown at Anime Expo's AX Idol 2004, she has appeared as host for
various television and online series and produced a solo album. Yanez is currently in the studio
working on her new album with Japanese rocker, PoLo from the rock group NIRF.

About Anime Jungle
First opened in Osaka, Japan in 1995, Jungle Special Collectors has grown to become one of
Western Japan's best retailers of pre-owned audio/visual media (DVD, LD, CD, CD-Single, and
VHS), specializing in Japanese animation, tokusatsu (live action heroes/SFX), and ﬁlms from around
the world. The specialty shop is known to carry the world's best selection of Japan's "Indies" ﬁlms-
fan-made movies, hero ﬁlms, parodies, animation, and more by independent ﬁlmmakers. Jungle has
expanded from a small 250 square feet store to become a three story retail outlet of high-quality used
media with its own theater and a Tokusatsu fan club. In 1998, Anime Jungle opened its web site and
began to retail online, adding English (2000) and Korean (2001) sites as well. The store continued to
grow and opened a shop in July 2001 in the Little Tokyo Mall of Los Angeles in the United States.
Anime Jungleʼs mission is to bring Japanese anime, Tokusatsu, and Independent Films to the
American public.

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